![]() “You can’t possibly figure out the history of the Bush presidency – until I’m dead,” President Bush once told the journalist Robert Draper. ![]() “Decision Points” is by nature a contradictory enterprise. As a defense of a controversial presidency that a group of scholars has ranked as the fifth worst in history, it is a rousing closing argument that is sometimes persuasive but always tendentious. As a memoir, it is an uneven and mostly boring read, alternating moments of gratuitous candor with long sections of guarded prose. And now that he’s moved on, he has put forward an unapologetic, forceful account of the toughest decisions he faced.Īs history, Decision Points is a sweeping tour of the figures and forces that drove a pivotal decade. He made up his mind to run for president. She was girding her son to decide whether he should run to be “the decider.” But she wasn’t referring to a choice between paper and plastic. ![]() ![]() Such curt replies are Barbara Bush’s specialty. ![]()
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